Books by John J. Gobbell and Complete Book Reviews
John J. Gobbell, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-312-27491-7
The fourth novel from the writer of historical military thrillers (The Last Lieutenant, A Code for Tomorrow) combines two actual events from 1943—the killing of Isoroku Yamamoto and the introduction of proximity fuses into antiaircraft...
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John J. Gobbell, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-312-31170-4
Gobbell's fourth WWII naval adventure (after When Duty Whispers Low
) brings series hero Todd Ingram up to the rank of commander and near the end of the war. Datelined chapters span the months from February to October 1944 and skip from...
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John J. Gobbell, Author Scribner Book Company $22.95 (357p) ISBN 978-0-684-19249-9
Brutus is a top-secret, state-of-the-art minisub. When its designer, ex-SEAL Brad Lofton, witnesses a murder that heralds a betrayed intelligence operation, he commandeers the sub for a desperate voyage to Russia. There he discovers that he and...
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John J. Gobbell, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-312-13108-1
Gobbell (The Brutus Lie), a former Navy lieutenant who served in the South China Sea in the 1960s, has fashioned a complex WWII thriller about events surrounding the American defeat at Corregidor and the subsequent victory at Midway, which turned...
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John J. Gobbell, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-20511-9
In his sequel to the WWII adventure The Last Lieutenant, former navy lieutenant Gobbell unfolds a pedestrian tale of combat, espionage and romance in the Pacific during 1942. Officer Todd Ingram is serving on a destroyer as the U.S. Navy battles the
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John J. Gobbell. Naval Institute, $34.95 (344p) ISBN 978-1-61251-519-9
Gobbell’s exciting fifth Todd Ingram novel (after 2004’s The Neptune Strategy) finds Ingram commanding the destroyer USS Maxwell, which comes under Kamikaze attack off the coast of Japan shortly after the second atomic bomb falls on Nagasaki....
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